an open label, single-dose, single period adme study of a4250 in healthy subjects

Conditions: Orphan Cholestatic Liver Diseases; Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis; Alagille Syndrome; Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

Summary: the primary objectives of the study are to assess the mass balance recovery after a single dose of carbon-14 \[14c\]-a4250 as a capsule and to provide plasma, urine and faecal samples for metabolite profiling and structural identification in healthy male subjects.


Eligibility criteria:
inclusion criteria: 1. healthy males 2. age 30 to 65 years of age 3. body mass index of 18.0 to 35.0 kg/m2 or, if outside the range, considered not clinically significant by the investigator 4. must be willing and able to communicate and participate in the whole study 5. must have regular bowel movements (i.e., average stool production of ≥1 and ≤3 stools per day) 6. must provide written informed consent 7. must agree to use an adequate method of contraception exclusion criteria: 1. subjects who have received any imp in a clinical research study within the previous 3 months prior to screening 2. subjects who are study site employees, or immediate family members of a study site or sponsor employee 3. subjects who have previously been enrolled in this study 4. history of any drug or alcohol abuse in the past 2 years 5. regular alcohol consumption in males \>21 units per week (1 unit = ½ pint beer, 25 ml of 40% spirit or a 125 ml glass of wine) 6. current smokers and those who have smoked within the last 12 months. a confirmed positive urine cotinine test at screening or admission 7. current users of e-cigarettes and nicotine replacement products and those who have used these products within the last 12 months 8. radiation exposure, including that from the present study, excluding background radiation but including diagnostic x-rays and other medical exposures, exceeding 5 msv in the last 12 months or 10 msv in the last 5 years. no occupationally exposed worker, as defined in the ionising radiation regulations 1999, shall participate in the study 9. subjects who do not have suitable veins for multiple venepunctures/cannulation as assessed by the investigator at screening 10. clinically significant abnormal biochemistry, haematology or urinalysis as judged by the investigator 11. confirmed positive drugs of abuse test result at screening or admission 12. positive hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag), hepatitis c virus antibody (hcv ab) or human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) results 13. evidence of renal impairment at screening, as indicated by an estimated creatinine clearance (clcr) of \<90 ml/min using the cockcroft-gault equation 14. history of cardiovascular, renal, hepatic, chronic respiratory or gi disease as judged by the investigator 15. serious adverse reaction or serious hypersensitivity to any drug or the formulation excipients 16. presence or history of clinically significant allergy requiring treatment, as judged by the investigator. hayfever is allowed unless it is active 17. donation or loss of greater than 400 ml of blood within the previous 3 months 18. subjects who are taking, or have taken, any prescribed or over-the-counter drug (other than 4 g per day paracetamol) or herbal remedies in the 14 days before imp administration. exceptions may apply on a case by case basis, if considered not to interfere with the objectives of the study, as agreed by the pi and sponsor's medical monitor. 19. failure to satisfy the investigator of fitness to participate for any other reason